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Book The Pennsylvania Railroad  Volume 1

Download or read book The Pennsylvania Railroad Volume 1 written by Albert J. Churella and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world. In 1914, the PRR employed more than two hundred thousand people—more than double the number of soldiers in the United States Army. As the self-proclaimed "Standard Railroad of the World," this colossal corporate body underwrote American industrial expansion and shaped the economic, political, and social environment of the United States. In turn, the PRR was fundamentally shaped by the American landscape, adapting to geography as well as shifts in competitive economics and public policy. Albert J. Churella's masterful account, certain to become the authoritative history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, illuminates broad themes in American history, from the development of managerial practices and labor relations to the relationship between business and government to advances in technology and transportation. Churella situates exhaustive archival research on the Pennsylvania Railroad within the social, economic, and technological changes of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, chronicling the epic history of the PRR intertwined with that of a developing nation. This first volume opens with the development of the Main Line of Public Works, devised by Pennsylvanians in the 1820s to compete with the Erie Canal. Though a public rather than a private enterprise, the Main Line foreshadowed the establishment of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1846. Over the next decades, as the nation weathered the Civil War, industrial expansion, and labor unrest, the PRR expanded despite competition with rival railroads and disputes with such figures as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The dawn of the twentieth century brought a measure of stability to the railroad industry, enabling the creation of such architectural monuments as Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The volume closes at the threshold of American involvement in World War I, as the strategies that PRR executives had perfected in previous decades proved less effective at guiding the company through increasingly tumultuous economic and political waters.

Book The Law of Railways

Download or read book The Law of Railways written by Isaac Fletcher Redfield and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Petroleum Industry  Position of the Standard oil company in the petroleum industry  May 20  1907  1907

Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Petroleum Industry Position of the Standard oil company in the petroleum industry May 20 1907 1907 written by United States. Bureau of Corporations and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2d District
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  • Release : 1911
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  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2d District and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Release : 1900
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  • Pages : 1620 pages

Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book United States Digest

Download or read book United States Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Company  Part II vol 7

Download or read book The History of the Company Part II vol 7 written by Robin Pearson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later 17th and the early 20th centuries, the editors bring together a collection which employs selected documents and analytical commentary to illustrate the external role of the firm and public perceptions of it.

Book Railway International Passenger and Ticket Agents Journal

Download or read book Railway International Passenger and Ticket Agents Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Street Railway Journal

Download or read book The Street Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interstate Commerce Act of 1943  regulation of Rate Bureaus

Download or read book Interstate Commerce Act of 1943 regulation of Rate Bureaus written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Senate of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports

Download or read book Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports written by Pennsylvania. Superior Court and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing cases decided by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.